As a four-year letterwinner and three-year team captain and
Most Valuable Player, Karen Watkins cemented her place as one of the strongest
frontcourt players in Grove City College womenís basketball history.

As a 5-foot-10 freshman center in 1978, she made an immediate
impact by helping the team to a 13-1 mark.

Four years later, Watkins graduated as Grove Cityís career
leader in rebounds with 862óa mark that has been surpassed only once in 26
seasons.

With the "best teammates in the world," according to Karen,
they won four Womenís Keystone Conference titles with 27 wins against a single
loss and a 67-11 overall mark. She is one of just two Grove City players
to average a "double-double" for her career, averaging 11.0 points and 11.5
rebounds over 78 career games.

The 1980-81 Wolverines earned the programís first postseason
berth by qualifying for the EAIAW Championship Tournament. Watkins averaged 11
points and 12.6 rebounds per game in helping Grove City to an 18-4 season
record.

As a senior, she hauled in a school-record 287 rebounds as
head coach Terry Ellisí cagers collected 19 wins and the programís first-ever
NCAA Division III Championship Tournament invitation.

Watkins graduated in 1982 with a bachelorís degree in social
work/sociology. Later, her hometown of Erie, Pa., recognized her as one of
the cityís top 50 athletes of the 20th Century.

She embarked on a career as an Operations Manager/Contractor for an oil and
gas company before beginning her current career as a high school geography
teacher. She has also been active as a womenís ministry leader and a
motivational speaker.